-lilo- [Global Notice] Hi all. On behalf of PDPC and freenode, I wanted to let you know that, after these messages, we are discontinuing the global fundraising notices and wallops. As you may know, freenode (formerly OPN) is now a service of Peer-Directed Projects Center.
-lilo- [Global Notice] As a new nonprofit, PDPC is in need of funding, but with the unhappiness expressed at these fundraising notices, we've decided it's best to retire them in favor of less intrusive fundraising methods.
-lilo- [Global Notice] On behalf of the board of PDPC and the staff of freenode, we apologize sincerely to anyone who has been offended by the notices, and refer you to our website (http://freenode.info/) if you should wish to contribute. Thanks for your attention and have a good day.

That's good to hear. Hopefully everybody can forget all
about this now and we can get back to swapping MP3's, er, I mean hacking.